Brooklyn Vegan — Forget about Arcade Fire and Bonny Bear, who the heck is this old dude playing the Grammys???... more info

Pop Justice — Another major awards ceremony, another Tumblr laughing at people who haven't heard of the more leftfield nominees and winners. It started with Arcade Fire (http://whoisarcadefire.tumblr.com/) and this time it's Bon Iver prompting 'LOLs'. Now ther... more info

Detroit Free Press — If there's one truism about the Grammys these days, it's to bank on the unexpected. Recent years have been marked by last-second surprises, with big winners such as Arcade Fire and Steely Dan turning expectations on their heads and leaving ... more info

Gigwise — President's campaign soundtrack... more info

Guardian Music — After the president tweeted his 2012 campaign playlist, we did a bit of headphone analysis. But what songs would you have included?President Barack Obama tweeted his 2012 campaign Spotify playlist on Thursday – which is in itself noteworthy in that... more info

Topix — Nickelback , Coldplay and Arcade Fire are among the nominees for this year's Juno Awards, the Canadian equivalent of the Grammy Awards. more info

Stereogum — After last year’s Grammys, when Arcade Fire performed dodging Mat Hoffman bike-tricks and then immediately won the Album Of The Year award, the award show has a high standard to live up to when it comes to ridiculous and implausible but kind of awe... more info

411 Mania — Plus Metallica, Arcade Fire and more... more info

Stopcryingyourheartout.com — They'll battle likes of Kasabian, Odd Future and Azealia Banks for gongs at next month's ceremony.Arctic Monkeys, Noel Gallagher, Lana Del Rey, The Vaccines and Odd Future are among the acts nominated for gongs at this year's NME Awards.The nominatio... more info

Stereogum — Austin City Limits has been on something of a roll lately. Over the last couple of weeks, the PBS music-performance show has featured Arcade Fire on one show and Fleet Foxes and Joanna Newsom on another. And on this past weekend’s episode, the show... more info